Quotes about Tradition

In biblical times, they used to stone a few thirteen-year-olds with some regularity, which helped keep the others quiet and at home. The mothers were usually in the first row of stone throwers, and had to be restrained.

In the rabbinical tradition, there is great insight in the notion that when we see suffering, we remember that this is only the sixth day. We're not done here. The good news is that God isn't, either. God is searching with us for a cure for cancer. God rejoiced at the cure for smallpox.

Ask?da ekmek: there is bread on the hook. It's an ancient tradition in Turkey. When buying a loaf at the local bakery, you can choose to pay for an extra loaf and, after bagging your purchase, the owner will hang the second loaf on a hook on the wall. If a person in need comes by, he or she can ask if there's anything on the hook. If so, the bread is shared, and the hunger is relieved.

A curious person embraces the tension between his religion and something new, wrestles with it and through it, and then decides whether to embrace the new idea or reject it.

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

Custom is second nature.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten.